Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery of the yarn was a fluke. During World War II Switzerland's Heberlein and Co., and France's Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft...
...same smooth-stroking University of Pennsylvania crew that put an end to Navy's three-year winning streak (TIME, May 16) proved that its Adams Cup victory was no fluke. On the sluggish tidewater of the Potomac, at Washington, the Quakers took the Eastern heavyweight sprint championship by finishing the 2,000-meter race i^ lengths ahead of Cornell. In last place, behind Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Princeton...
...Crimson fans and objective observers among the 30,000 in Palmer Stadium this afternoon would disagree with Princeton partisans who called the win a fluke. No one can say positively that the absence of Royce Flippin and Dick Frye plus the limited participation of Dick Martin and Dick Emery hurt the home team more than the visitors were handicapped by losing Matt Botsford and Dexter Lewis for the whole game and Jim Joslin for the last three quarters...
...visiting team won on Soldiers Field. The undergraduate attitude to that loss was adequately summed up in a Boston Globe editorial: "... Harvard has no excuses. The eleven was clearly outplayed in the second half and beaten fairly. To be sure, Amherst's score was in the nature of a fluke, but that fluke was enough...
...victory. Shad Tubman continued his high scoring, tallying both Crimson goals, the first at 3:15 of he first period, the last after nine minutes of the final period, the last after nine minutes of the final period. His second goal was somewhat of a fluke, being deflected off a Green fullback into the goal. For three periods Dartmouth threatened, but only scored once...